| What to do with red/yellows? (Re: Is there a good Stars! tutoral out there? - ) |
Tue, 12 August 2003 09:12  |
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| Micha | 
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| Zapan wrote on Tue, 12 August 2003 08:06 |
I hate to disagree with Micha but I think his strategy for reds/yellows is misleading.
He's absolutely right that the overcrowding deaths are worse than the hab induced deaths but not all yellows will terraform to a small green. Therefore you won't always experience overcrowding if you terra first. unless ofcourse you're in the habit of colonizing with 300,000 colonists.
In my opinion its a question of style. HG races on a medium yellow would be well advised to terra first to get the pop growing. HPs with low resource per colonist settings would be better off building facts since they could care less if a few people die.
just my two cents.
-Zapan
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Hm, ok, my post was a little black/white, there are shades of grey in between depending on how red a planet is and how green it will become ... Below is what I do ...
Obviously if you will never get it green or if it is a deep red with just 5% green or so than don't bother doing terra, just drop 300% of people (more pop doesn't generate more resources) on them and let them build factories and mines. This is of course if you can't remote mine it but still want some of minerals, late game every kT is usefull, while you have plenty of pop and have no problem with overcrowding the planet (IS are very good at this use of reds). It will gererate some resources but not much, well that actully depends on your economy settings of course.
At some point a fort+gate might come in handy if the planet has a strategic postion, and defenses, although limited to 10 so not of much use.
For small yellows that will become big greens it is sometimes indeed better to terra first (especially if once they turn green they become 10-15% or better immediately), and again drop 300% pop and let them do their job. Depending on how fast I can terra and how much extra pop I have I sometimes take off pop once the planet is a small green to limit the overgrowth deaths.
And indeed a difference for HP and HG, a HP builds factories first, no matter if the planet is green, yellow or red. Well that's from my limited experience as HP ...
mch
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